The only presidential candidate that will ever get my vote

[GayGravy-JJ]

Both democrat and republican party officials are trying to get rid of this guy now. He's got more grassroots support than any candidate in history. Bill Maher has even changed his tune regarding Ron Paul after hearing the debates a few nights ago by calling him his "hero" repeatedly on his show saturday night. My guess is that he will switch over to independent when the republicans dont give him the nomination. He's a prolific writer and most of the books in my collection regarding non-debt based monetary systems quote Ron Paul over and over. Anyway, he is the most vocal opponent of keeping the internet completely unregulated...which is great for us as the naughty perveyors of filth that we are.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Hfa7vT02lA

[GayGravy-JJ]

Here's the Bil Maher clip i was talking about
http://votewritein.blogspot.com/2007...w-hero-on.html

[wnc]

What the USA needs is a grassroots change of leadership. With the popular Gas Price thread here at GWW, soon the USA will face a deep recession.

Porn income will indeed be affected by those that enjoy it for the *fun* of it, others though may purchase, since they can't afford to drive to the bar and drink away their limited money. $30 one night versus $30 for a month... what a deal.

Bush got elected and we said sorry to the world and they understood that a court decision decided the election results.

When Bush got re-elected, the dislike for American citizens increased multi-fold.

What the USA needs is a grassroots change. Throw all of the bums out.

H. Ross Pierot waved too many pie charts at the American people and they got confused. He was also a strange looking man. It is time for an independent candidate to win and start to break the stong-hold anti-democratic lobby-endowed two-party system here in the USA.

[Squirt]

He has a video on his site that's really good as well http://www.ronpaul2008.com

On the "about Ron" part of his site some interesting info:

Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.


I don't know much about him, but after watching the video on his front page, and the two you linked to, as well as his "about Ron" page, he is very refreshing :thumbsup:

[wnc]

He has a video on his site that's really good as well

This what I love about GWW... here is Squirt, living in Australia, making comments about USA politics (smile). Hope to read other worldwide opinions about USA politics.

[GayGravy-JJ]

This what I love about GWW... here is Squirt, living in Australia, making comments about USA politics (smile). Hope to read other worldwide opinions about USA politics.

Yep, we have an office in netherlands, manila and san francisco so i am around the place quite often. What i've found is that those who are outside the American Idol stranglehold on the minds of those who would make up a collective "US culture" tend to be far more knowledgable on our domestic policies than are those who actually live here. Very, very bad times are coming soon and most are still stuck in that bubble..
When the Fed announced they were discontinuing the the announcement of the M3 numbers back in November 2005 i knew the jig was up. The full fledged fleecing is already underway..

[Squirt]

When the Fed announced they were discontinuing the the announcement of the M3 numbers back in November 2005 i knew the jig was up. The full fledged fleecing is already underway..

What are you referencing? I don't know what M3 is. Fill me in

[GayGravy-JJ]

What are you referencing? I don't know what M3 is. Fill me in

Basically it's how much money is in circulation...USD. Part of the package when they passed the Federal Reserve Act in the dead of night just before xmas vacation in 1913 was that there must be transparency in it's operations. They were required to give weekly reports as to how much money they are printing and where it was going (most is not actual currency but credits entered via a keyboard..10 billion here..10 billion there) so we would have an accurate gauge of what the real inflation rate actually is. But since 1913 the monied interests that represent the Federal Reserve have made it less and less transparent year after year so that now we have a private institution that issues our currency and we arent allowed to know what they are doing. (Yes, it is a private, for-profit institution..look in the phone book..you will not find them in the government pages but in the private busines pages) The M3 reports let us know how much they were printing.
Take a look at a chart of gold or the Euro since november 2005. They stopped the flow of information and immediately turned on the printing presses, flooding the stock market with US dollars. Look at the stock market..record highs every day now.. So the average person looks at thier IRA and assumes everything is great with the economy etc. But how much less is your dollar buying you now than it was just 2 years ago? In tandem with the increased secrecy of the federal reserve's operations they have been changing the Consumer Price Index's formula (The CPI is the "official" gauge of inflation that you will hear the talking heads on CNBC going on about as if they didnt know it is total BS) progressively every year since the begining of Clinton's term so that now the CPI is basically a a political tool that has nothing to do with anything real people see on the ground. Here's two things the CPI dosent factor in: Food and Energy prices.
I mean..that makes sense right? Who eats food ...or buys gas? No one does that stuff right? That's just the tip of the iceberg regarding the new CPI...
But if you really want to get mad i can explain how and what the federal reserve system is and how the model is used in every country in the world now..even austrailia. It's all based on fractional reserve accounting..lending money when you dont have money to lend and charging interest on that money.

[Squirt]

I wouldn't be surprised, with the current state of affairs. This all sounds very interesting I'm going to research it more. Thanks for the info :groovy: